Interrogating Citizenship: Sex, Race, Class and Regimes of Power

April 2-3

Working once again in collaboration with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), the 2010 symposium interrogated the concept of citizenship by looking at the ways it has been and is deployed by regimes of power, as well as in reaction to these regimes. The central focus was on the interaction between constructions of citizenship and those of race, sexuality, gender and class. How has the concept of citizenship been used in projects of nation building, war, empire and labor mobilization? How have categories of race and sexuality entered into this? Have there been significant cases of counter representations, alternative constructions of citizenship that question received categories in the cases under consideration?